Air & Climate
These are put in effect when the air is unhealthy. These limit wood stove use and outdoor fires.
What is a burn ban?
You will need this if you plan to use any amount of surface water for any purpose.
What is a water right?
Driving causes tires to release particles containing this toxic chemical, which is lethal to our salmon populations.
What is 6PPD?
An inlet of the Pacific Ocean that has deep fjords, a large number of islands, and bays that were carved by glaciers.
What is the Puget Sound?
The current host of Jeopardy.
Who is Ken Jennings?
We have identified 16 of these areas in the state, which are highly impacted by criteria air pollutants. These places can be a mix of urban, suburban, or rural areas and vary in population.
What are overburdened communities?
Commonly called marshes, swamps, or bogs these land areas are saturated or covered with water for at least some part of the year.
What are Wetlands?
Abandoned or underutilized properties that may have environmental contamination. These are common in communities of all sizes — they may be old gas stations, drycleaners, industrial facilities, smelters, or former agricultural land.
What are brownfields?
The site in Washington for this business is the largest manufacturing facility in the world and the largest building in the world by volume.
What is Boeing?
Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa” hangs in this museum.
What is the Louvre?
This program is designed to reduce emissions of high-global warming potential refrigerants from leaky equipment and reduce emissions from the installation and servicing of refrigeration and air-conditioning appliances.
What is the Refrigeration Management Program?
Located on the Columbia River west of Spokane, a gravity dam, completed in 1941, and one of the largest structures ever built, a concrete mass 550 feet high and 5,223 feet long.
What is the Grand Coulee Dam?
High-level waste can be turned into glass through this process.
What is vitrification?
This racquet sport similar to tennis, was invented on Bainbridge Island, in 1964. This is the state sport and as of 2021 has become the fastest growing sport in the nation.
What is Pickleball?
This occasion corresponds with the longest day of each year.
What is the summer solstice?
The industry with the largest contribution of greenhouse gas emissions in the state.
What is transportation?
This federal act gives states the primary role in managing their coastal zone. In 1976, Washington was the first state to receive federal approval for a BLANK Program.
What is the Coastal Zone Management Act?
A device used to clean up spills by removing oil from the surface of water.
What is a skimmer?
The states highest elevation is on the top of this mountain and active stratovolcano, at 14,411 feet above sea level, located about 50 miles south of Seattle.
What is Mount Rainier?
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This region has received the most ERTS reports to date.
What is NWRO?
This inventory helps us design policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and track progress toward meeting Washington's emission reduction limits.
What is the Greenhouse Gas Inventory?
This program monitors the safety of saltwater swimming beaches from Memorial Day to Labor Day. We lead the program jointly with the Washington State Department of Health and work with county and local agencies, tribal nations, and volunteers.
What is the BEACH program
Businesses that generated any amount of hazardous waste and reported a gross income of $12,000 or more within the previous year, are required to pay this fee under WAC 173-305.
What is the Hazardous Waste Generation Fee?
This waterfall in Washington is over 286 feet tall, which is more than twice as high as Niagara Falls.
What is Snoqualmie Falls?
This type of bond occurs when atoms share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?